Identities of Contradiction (25 min., 2011). An exploration of questions of identity, history and self-defition with Palestinian citizens of Israel living in the villages of Deir al-Assad, al-Bineh and Majd al-Krum. This film has been publicly screened dozens of times including, most notably, in school classrooms in Deir al-Assad and al-Bineh. Moriel was given a Middlebury College Public Service Leadership Award after producing this film.
Udi Segal – Israeli Refusenik (3 min., 2014). Produced along with Yuval Orr, this short film is a brief portrait of 19-year old Udi Segal, the day before he is sent to jail for refusing to enlist. Udi spent over 50 days in jail before he was eventually released on pro forma mental health grounds November 2014.
Oh the woe of me (3 min., 2010). This one is bit less serious than the others. It was produced with my brother, Jesse, and is a musical rendition of a lengthy text message sent by our sister, Liana, when she was 13.
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Here are a collection of some of the best photos taken published on The Leftern Wall over the past few years. If you want to use these any photos, just contact me moriel18 (at) gmail (dot) com.
On an abandoned IDF “pillbox” in Hebron, someone sprayed, in Arabic, “Gaza Gaza Gaza.”Activist Mohammad Abu Hummus holding up a poster of Ziad Abu Ein. Issawiya, East JerusalemSouth Hebron HillsPolice arrest a Palestinian man during “Jerusalem Day,” 2014“Jerusalem will not be silent in the face of racism.” October 2014Druze viola player Omar Saad prepares to go to jail for refusing to enlist in the IDFProtesting the war on Gaza. Tel Aviv. Summer, 2014A woman who I recognized from Women in Black stands at a demonstration with two signs that read: “Bury the rifles and not the children” and “Topple the government! Social justice and equality. Refugees Jews and Arabs.”Young Diaspora Jews pray Minha, the afternoon prayer, while stopped at a checkpoint on their way back from a visit to a nearby Palestinian villageBrothers Issa and Ahmed Amro, nonviolent activists and organizers, stand outside of their community center in occupied Hebron.“Enough” (protesting the war on Gaza in Tel Aviv, Summer 2014)A man stands next to what remains of his house in the Bedouin village of Jabal al-Baba in the West Bank. Recently, Amira Hass reported on government plans to forcibly transfer up to 12,500 Bedouins living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, Summer 2014.Udi Segal prepares to refuse to enlist in the IDF, July 2014.Jerusalem.Renaming the streetsUltra-Orhtodox refusenik Uriel Ferera, between jail sentences, at a demonstration against the war on Gaza.Damascus Gate, Jerusalem Day, 2014Damascus Gate at SunsetAn amazingly worded lock in Sheikh Jarrah, reminding of the obligation to speak out in every day culture as much as in high politicsSegregation is not our Judaism. Protest in Hebron, 2013.Israeli police surround the Palestinian man who had descended the hill, Silwan, 2013.RefuseJerusalem
”White Soldiers,” Jerusalem Day, 2012What’s left of Al Arakib- a graveyard. 2012.Before I embraced nonviolence
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